Dr. Heather Bowe
Community and Professional Services
Forensic Linguistics Consultancy: Speaker Identification (ongoing)
- continued to manage the consultancy on behalf of the linguistics department 1991-present
Yorta Yorta Native Title Claim
- Expert witness- Native Title case: The members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community and The State of Victoria & Others in the Federal Court of Australia, VG 6001 of 1995.10pp
- Consultancy Earnings:Arnold Bloch Leibler, Solicitors for Yorta Yorta Native Title claim. 1997: $5,000, 1998: $2,000.
Liaison Aboriginal Groups in Victoria
- ongoing responses to queries and requests regarding details of linguistic publications containing reference to particular languages.
- assistance with interpretation of orthographic conventions used by different writers.
Victorian Board Of Studies
- assistance with the development of the Indigenous Languages syllabus compatible with the VCE LOTE Study Design 1994-present
- Inaugural Chairperson, VCE (Year 11 & 12) LOTE subject - Australian Indigenous Languages implementation trial, currently Chief Examiner 1995-present
- Consultancy Earnings: 1995: $2,602; 1996: $2,248; 1997: $2,516; 1998 $2,613; 1999: $2,364
University Committee membership
- Faculty Board 1996- present
- Elizabeth Eggleston Memorial Fund (Koorie Studies Library)1996-Pres
- Chair Faculty of Arts Exclusions Committee 1999.
Member, Australian Linguistic Society:
http://www.als.asn.au/
Member, Association for Linguistic Typology